Directive 09/CT-TTg the growth targets for the first 6 months and year of 2019

DIRECTIVE

On solutions to address challenges facing production and business, ensuring the achievement of the growth targets set for the first 6 months and the whole year
of 2019^[1]

The year of 2019 is determined to be the year of acceleration to successfully implement the resolutions of the XII^th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam (the Party) as well as the National Assembly’s Resolution on the 2016-2020 socio-economic development plan. With the action guidelines of “discipline, integrity, action, creativity, acceleration and effectiveness”, right from the beginning of the year, ministries, central agencies and local authorities have actively organized the implementation of the resolutions of the Party, National Assembly and Government on the 2019 socio-economic development and state budget estimates.

Nevertheless, the GDP growth in the first quarter of 2019 was lower than the expectation in the growth scenarios made from the beginning of the year. Besides, emerging challenges have affected the economic growth, especially in the processing and manufacturing industries and export of key goods items which show the sign of slowdown, and led to the unsatisfactory disbursement of public investment capital, especially for large projects, and complicated development of livestock epidemics, particularly African swine fever.

In an attempt to achieve or overachieve the 2019 GDP growth target of 6.8 percent, the tasks for the last months of the year, including addressing difficulties facing the production and business and boosting the economic growth, are quite enormous, requiring great efforts of all sectors and authorities in all fields. The Prime Minister requests the ministers, heads of ministerial-level agencies and government-attached agencies, chairpersons of provincial-level People’s Committees and state economic groups and corporations (below collectively referred to as ministries, sectors and localities) to focus on directing the synchronous and effective performance of the following objectives, tasks and solutions:

I. OBJECTIVES AND REQUIREMENTS

Ministries, sectors and localities shall:

1. Avoid subjectivity in their direction and administration; closely monitor developments in global and domestic realities; follow up the objectives and tasks set forth in the Government’s Resolution No. 01/NQ-CP dated January 1, 2019, on major tasks and solutions to implement the 2019 socio-economic development plan and state budget estimates, and Resolution No. 02/NQ-CP of January 1, 2019, on further implementation of major tasks and solutions to improve the business environment and raise the national competitiveness in 2019, and orientations toward 2021, in order to set forth specific tasks for each sector, field or locality to boost, and address problems and difficulties facing, the production and business in a more radical and effective manner, thereby building the confidence of the people and enterprises and striving for fulfillment or overfulfilment of the 2019 socio-economic development objectives and tasks.

2. Base themselves on the growth tasks and objectives of the regions as well as major sectors and fields of the economy to set forth specific objectives, tasks and solutions for each sector with a view to creating a development driving force for not only 2019 but also for subsequent years.

3. Focus on directing the accelerated implementation of projects, particularly key, large-scale projects with spillover effects; strive for disbursement of 100% of the 2019 public investment capital.

4. Properly perform the task of reforming the specialized inspection, business conditions and administrative procedures as instructed by the Prime Minister in Document No. 320/TTg-KSTT of March 15, 2019.

II. SPECIFIC TASKS AND SOLUTIONS TO ADDRESS CHALLENGES FACING THE PRODUCTION AND BUSINESS AND BOOST THE GROWTH TO ACHIEVE THE OBJECTIVES SET FORTH FOR 2019

1. To step up the formulation and improvement of regulations

a/ The Ministry of Justice shall:

- Study amendments and supplementations to the Government’s Decree No. 59/2012/ND-CP of July 23, 2012, on monitoring and enforcement of law, remediation of limitations in the mechanism for coordination in law enforcement and slow policy response of a number of ministries, sectors and localities, then submit them to the Government in September 2019.